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After more than a century, women take a formal role in New Bedford’s massive Madeiran Feast
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2024-08-02 17:18:41
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New Bedford’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a cultural festival with religious roots, is billed as the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It’s more than a century old, but this year, behind the scenes, something very big is changing. For the first time — and under threat of a lawsuit — women have been allowed to join the Feast Committee.

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